Smalltalk with James Robertson

The Cincom Smalltalk team will be coming to Seattle for a one day event on Thursday the 21st - you can register here (free). You can get more details over on the Cincom Smalltalk Events Page- the event will run from 9 AM to 1 PM

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Here's Niall Ross' typically thorough report from ESUG 2009.

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When you specify the type of an input field as "Password", the "Read Only" setting becomes a problem in VisualWorks 7.7. Today's screencast looks at that, given that the two worked in VisualWorks 7.6

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Next week (on the 21st) we'll be at the Crowne Plaza in Seattle, Washington, 9 AM to 1 PM. You can register for the event (free) here. We'll be covering cool stuff in VisualWorks, ObjectStudio, and WebVelocity, so come on out to see what the Smalltalk team has been up to!

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Travis Griggs is talking about Smalltalk Superpowers again - lightweight classes, specifically - in order to solve a problem involving VisualWorks LookPolicy classes. Check it out - it's interesting stuff.

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With the release of OS 8.2 and VW 7.7, Glorp is not only a supported O/R library - it has ActiveRecord support as well. Today's screencast looks at using it withing VW.

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I spent the morning working on a demo I'm building for the upcoming roadshow events - which is why "Smalltalk Daily" isn't up yet. It should pop up within the hour.

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The Pharo-cast blog has a seaside video up - going through the canonical blog example. I did a whole tutorial series on that :)

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If you're trying to port code from Squeak or Pharo to VisualWorks and/or ObjectStudio, one thing you may have run across is the Brace Constructor syntax for arrays. i.e., instead of:.

array := Array 
			with: 3+4
			with: Date today.

You get:

array := {3+4. Date today}.

Today's screencast looks at adding support for that syntax to VW and OS:

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Here's Niall Ross, talking about new features of SUnit at ESUG 2009, held in Brest, France last summer. You can grab a copy of Niall's slides here(PDF). To watch, click on the viewer below:

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